Tag: Adamu Adamu
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FG approves 37 new universities
Few days to the expiration of the present administration the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has approved the licensing of 37 new universities in the country. Adamu Adamu, Nigeria’s minister of Education made this known after the extra-ordinary Council meeting on Monday.
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Buhari appoints pioneer Rector for Federal Poly, Orogun
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr Duke Okoro as the pioneer Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Orogun in Ughelli North local government area of Delta State.
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New pry schools language policy: A national distraction of sorts – By Dennis Onakinor
With the notable exception of Africa’s second most-populous country, Ethiopia, nearly every one of Africa’s 55 Independent sovereign states is a creation of European colonialism. From British colonialism emerged Nigeria, the continent’s most-populous state – a patchwork of over 360 ethnic groups speaking an estimated 625 different languages with innumerable dialects.
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Education: From Bumbling to Babel – By Chidi Amuta
President Buhari’s Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu, is a man who likes to take himself seriously. In ordinary circumstances, he should pass as one of the islands of some enlightenment in the arid cabinet of the outgoing administration.
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Nigeria to ditch English as means of instruction in pry schools
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a National Language Policy for use in all primary schools across the country.
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Towards the Federal Republic of Illiteracy – By Owei Lakemfa
EDUCATION Minister, Adamu Adamu, after presiding over the N5.6 trillion Education Budget in the last seven years and the N1.3 trillion intervention fund in four years, announced he has failed. It is not that as Education Minister, he has failed to preside over spending about N7 trillion in seven years, but, has failed to deliver…
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Yazid Rafindadi’s death painful – Unilorin VC
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof Sulyman Abdulkareem, on Thursday, expressed shock over the death of the institution’s Pro-Chancellor, Malam Yazid Rafindadi.
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ASUU Strike: Adamu advises Nigerian students to study in other African nations
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has said there is nothing wrong for Nigerian students to seek university education in other African nations and elsewhere, following the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. According to the minister, it is not wrong if Nigerian students go to school in other African nations…
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ASUU strike: FG announces salary increment for lecturers
The federal government of Nigeria has proposed a 23.5 per cent salary increase for lecturers, while a 35% increment would be enjoyed by professors if the offer is accepted by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
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ASUU Strike: FG finally gives up
The Federal Government has finally given up on the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, saying “we have done the best that we can”. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu disclosed this to reporters at an ongoing meeting with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities at the National Universities Commission (NUC)…